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OPPOSITION SUGGESTS THAT ANRE BE INDEPENDENT BODY

21.03.2008

Chisinau. A group of opposition MPs has submitted to the Parliament’s Permanent Bureau a draft Resolution on government’s energy policy, in which the opposition proposed to withdraw the National Energy Regulatory Agency (ANRE) from under the Government’s jurisdiction. The draft was prepared by the Democratic Party faction, but was signed also by a number of MPs from other opposition parties.

The draft authors believe the ANRE ought to become an agency independent of the Government organizationally, functionally and financially – precisely what the Communist Government undertook to make yet 3 years ago at signing the EU-Moldova European Neighborhood Policy Action Plan.

In their opinion, the Government would not fulfill the parliamentary Resolution of 2000 that demanded that gas meters be installed on main gas pipelines at the entry to the republic to count the volume of gas pumped by the Russian Gasprom Concern as well as at the exit lines ensuring Russian gas transit via the country, so that Moldova could always know precise gas supply figures.

The DP parliamentarians underlined that in the absence of such meters, the Moldovagas company constantly complains it suffers tremendous technical losses of fuel from pipelines and, naturally, includes the losses into the gas rate to be paid for by consumers instead of the looser company.

The DP also proposed the ANRE to supply consumers with meters checking the fuel’s chemical composition rather than with meters measuring the gas volume – exactly as this is practiced in European Union countries. When gas in lines is mixed with air, the fuel mixture’s burning co-efficiency drops badly, which is an infringement on consumers’ rights.

By law, a submitted draft Resolution is to be considered by parliament in one week’s time.